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Kwara Government Ties Salary Payment To BVN

The Kwara State Government has directed state and local government workers and pensioners that are yet to provide their Bank Verification Number (BVN) for the … Continue reading Kwara Government Ties Salary Payment To BVN


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BVNThe Kwara State Government has directed state and local government workers and pensioners that are yet to provide their Bank Verification Number (BVN) for the ongoing staff verification exercise to do so within seven days or risk non-payment of salary.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed gave the directive during a meeting of the committee on Personnel Database Development.

He said the government had no intention of withholding any worker’s salary without justification.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the Governor, Dr Muideen Akorede, said the affected workers and pensioners would still be credited with their salaries and pensions but would not be able to access the money until they obtained their BVN.

Governor Ahmed, who is also the chairman of the committee, explained that the unique bank numbers were necessary for preliminary verification of workers and pensioners on the state and local government councils’ payroll.

He pointed out that at this stage of the verification, those without valid BVN could not yet be designated as ghost workers.

Governor Ahmed said the intention behind the personnel database system was to give the government an accurate picture of the state and local government councils’ payroll and ensure that only those properly employed received salaries and pensions.

Fake BVN

In his remarks, the alternate Chairman of the Committee, Isiaka Gold, stated that of the 82,642 workers so far verified by the committee, only 49,579 had valid BVN while 124 were discovered to have fake BVN.

He said that the first level verification also revealed 324 individuals who were linked to 659 multiple accounts.

Mr Gold, who is also the Secretary to the State Government, therefore, urged workers and pensioners that were yet to submit their BVN to do so within seven days or risk having their payments withheld.

He called on workers who were properly recruited by the state and local governments to remain calm, while assuring them that the ongoing verification exercise would not affect their salaries and jobs.